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The Train Now Standing

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1972 - 1973
  • 15 episodes (2 series)

At the sleepy, largely-forgotten railway station Burberry Halt, station master Hedley Green passes time with his assistant, Peter Pringle. Stars Bill Fraser, Hugh Walters, Garfield Morgan, Denis Lill, Norman Mitchell and more.

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Oh Doctor Beeching!. Image shows from L to R: Jack Skinner (Paul Shane), Ethel Schumann (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC TV

Oh Doctor Beeching!

Sitcom following the working and personal lives of the staff at Hatley railway station in 1963, under the threat of the Beeching axe.

Parsley Sidings Radio

Parsley Sidings

Radio sitcom set in a sleepy out-of-the-way railway station, starring Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender.

An abandoned train. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions Radio

No-Platformed

Sitcom set in a train station.

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